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Mrs. Naina Lal Kidwai serves as Group General Manager of HSBC Holdings plc since October 1, 2006. Mrs. Kidwai serves as the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC India (a/k/a The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (India)) of HSBC Holdings plc since May 5, 2006. She has been the Country Head of HSBC India since April 15, 2009. Mrs. Kidwai served as the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry until December 2013 and previously served ... as its Senior Vice President since January 2012. She served as the Head of Corporate & Custodial Services of HSBC bank. She served as Group General Manager of HSBC India until April 15, 2009. She served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Hsbc Holdings Plc since May 21, 2004. She served as the Managing Director of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India. She served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of HSBC from November 2002 to May 5, 2006. Mrs. Kidwai served as the Head of Investment Banking in Morgan Stanley India / JM Morgan Stanley from 1994 to 2002. From 1982 to 1994, she served at Standard Chartered Bank(formerly Anz Grindlays Bank Plc.) as Chief Manager of Retail Bank from 1984 to 1991, Chief Manager and Head Investment Bank India from 1989 to 1991 and as Manager of North India of Investment Bank from 1987 to 1989. She served as Manager of West India of Investment Bank based in Bombay from 1984 to 1987. From 1977 to 1980, she worked at PriceWaterhouse & Co. She serves as the Chairman of HSBC Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd and HSBC InvestDirect (India) Ltd. She served as Vice Chairman of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India. She also served as Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley from 1994 to 2002. She serves as a Member of Governing Body at NCAER (National Council of Applied Economic Research), National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board of the Government of India and Government of India Representative on Indo German Consultative Group. She serves as an Additional Director of IL&FS Investment Managers Limited. Mrs. Kidwai has been a Director of Nestle India Ltd since 2006. She has been an Additional Director of HSBC InvestDirect (India) Ltd. since October 29, 2009. She has been a Non-Executive Director of Nestlé S.A. since April 2006 and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited October 1, 2010. She serves as a Member of Advisory Board at The Energy and Resources Institute. She serves on the Board of Dean's Advisors, the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA and India Advisory Board, India Board of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies USA. She is a Member of National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry. She is Chairman, Capital Markets Committee of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mrs. Kidwai was awarded with Padma Shri by the Indian Government in 2007. She holds degree of Master in Business Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) in 1982. She studied Chartered Accountancy from Institute of Chartered Accountants, Delhi (India) in 1980. She holds Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi (India) in 1977. She attended Loreto Convent, Simla (India) Indian School Certificate Examination (specialisation in Science and Mathematics) from 1968 to 1973 and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Repeatedly ranked in the Fortune global list of Top Women in Business in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times Global Listing of Women to Watch and listed by Time Magazine as one of their 15 Global Influentials 2002.

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Chief Executive Officer, Director, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Risk Committee, Member of Technology, Productivity & Quality Committee and Member of International CommitteeBanco Santander, S.A.

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